The 2016 cropping season was presenting southern grain growers with a unique set of opportunities and challenges, according to the Grains Research and Development Corporation’s Southern Regional Panel chair Keith Pengilley.
Mr Pengilley said despite low prices for cereals, a high degree of positivity permeated the southern cropping industry, on the back of significant rainfall, which has promoted high yield potential.
“In the past when seasons have been good, we generally haven’t seen such levels of positivity. People in the grains industry are generally risk averse and rightly so, given the dry years we’ve experienced,” Mr Pengilley said, after the Panel’s week-long tour through Victoria’s high, medium and low rainfall cropping zones.
Keith Pengilley and panel member John Bennett, Lawloit.
